# Supply of cold static Perfusion Fluid solution

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Nhs Blood and Transplant](/buyers/nhs-blood-and-transplant/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: BRIDGE TO LIFE \(EUROPE\) LTD
- Award value: £7,400,000
- Tender value: £8,545,000
- Award date: 14 June 2021
- Published: 30 June 2021
- Contract start: 21 June 2021
- Contract end: 20 June 2025
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: goods
- Notice ID: 092c576b-0f12-495d-b705-72c392d46e30-446508
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-513fce91-f898-4864-8b0e-e1013830b557

## Description

NHSBT is the commissioner responsible for providing funding, infrastructure, clinical guidance and standards to the National Organ Retrieval Service \(NORS\)\. NORS is comprised of 16 organ retrieval centres in England, Wales and Scotland, who are responsible for mobilising a retrieval team travelling to donor hospitals in the UK to retrieve organs for transplantation\. The NORS teams \(13\) use the fluids to preserve human organs \(kidneys, liver, pancreas, heart and lungs\) during retrieval, storage and transportation of the organ from the donor hospital to the transplant centre\. The Tender was carried out by NHSBT to establish framework agreement\(s\) against which the NORS Centres will call-off without any further competition\. An opportunity notice was published on Contracts Finder on 25 January 2021 with procurement reference: tender\_200119/920607 The Framework Agreement was awarded for 4 years and divided into lots as follows: Lot 1 - Supply of cold static perfusion fluid UW type solution Lot 2 - Supply of cold static fluid for lung perfusion \(Perfadex type solution, or equivalent\)\. Lot 3 - Supply of cold static perfusion fluid solution other than UW type or Perfadex Plus

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/092c576b-0f12-495d-b705-72c392d46e30-446508)